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Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
Marcus Buckingham
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Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
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Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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It remains true that great managers recognize individualities and focus on developing strengths rather than weaknesses. Great leaders, in sharp contrast, recognize what is (or could be) shared in common - a vision, a dream, a mission, whatever - and inspire others to join them in the given enterprise.
Marcus Buckingham
It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
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The secret to living a strong life is right in front of you, calling to you every day. It can be found in your emotional reaction to specific moments in your life.
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When you feel as though you can't do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it's just a simple step, and don't stop at the beginning.
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Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.
Marcus Buckingham
Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.
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There's something unique and different that makes a leader, and it's not about creativity or courage or integrity.... A leader's job is to rally people toward a better future.
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Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.
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I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.
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It's a special person - and personality - who can lead a start-up to soaring success and sustain that success for the long term. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg are star examples.
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CEOs hate variance. It's the enemy. Variance in customer service is bad. Variance in quality is bad. CEOs love processes that are standardized, routinized, predictable. Stamping out variance makes a complex job a bit less complex.
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The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.
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Managers are, and should be, totally responsible for recognizing individual strengths (both natural talents and skills), getting those strengths in proper alignment (i.e. in the right seats), and then leveraging them.
Marcus Buckingham
I need to reach out to people who work for small to mid-sized companies, and help them identify and apply their strengths at work.
Marcus Buckingham
We're all filled with naturally recurring patterns that make us unique - they're called talents. And our charge is to bloody well use them.
Marcus Buckingham
Define excellence vividly, quantitatively. Paint a picture for your most talented employees of what excellence looks like. Keep everyone pushing and pushing toward the right-hand edge of the bell curve.
Marcus Buckingham
As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.
Marcus Buckingham
We dream of having a clean house - but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning? We don't have to dream about doing the work, because doing the work is always within our grasp the dream, in this sense, is to attain the goal without the work.
Marcus Buckingham
There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.
Marcus Buckingham
Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.
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